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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
DNF - Great idea for a story but the pacing and the characters left much to be desired.
slow-paced
adventurous
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Spoiler
Since the weather is getting whoa-hoa-hoa-hoa-hoa again I'm going down a bit of a Smeyer hole for my own sick enjoyment. That being said: Smeyer PLEASE stop writing child-coded characters in relationships with full grown men. I'm begging. It's so weird. It happens like 6 times in this book. I get that it's the end of the world, and age gaps aren't as serious when there's only 37 of you in a hole, but fuck dude. If the world ended today I wouldn't shack up with a 16 year old, and I don't think most people would either. I cannot imagine the decline in civilization resulting in a worldwide decline of general morality.The Host was tiresome to get through, because there are sooooo many pages of repetitiveness. The main characters are borderline annoying most times. The setting gets stale. The main conflict gets incredibly stale about halfway through. Like, yeah, we get it. She's an alien. Everyone hates her. This didn't need to be (in my version, anyway) 600 pages worth of text. I ended up putting it down for like a month because I just. Couldn't.
However, the conclusion was cool. The last 300 or so pages were genuinely the most interesting part of the entire book, and I finished a bulk of the time I actually spent on this book during those pages because it was actually cool. This is such a cool concept, I wonder if I would have enjoyed it more if it was literally anyone other than Smeyer. I read that this is a book that might become a trilogy. I might look into reading that, even if reading this was just okay.
I don't think anything in this is technically a spoiler, but I'm going to hide it all anyway as I'm not the best at telling what is or isn't ground-breaking plot points for some people. This book was so predictable at times that I was guessing events 200 pages in advance, but I'm also just kinda like that. I don't know if it's representative of Smeyer at all. She is a good writer. This book was fine. I'm hypercritical. We knew that.
It could have been amazing, like 1984 level of awesome if someone else had written it and you know not made it all about a freakin love triangle.
This book was very different from the Twilight series, and it was one that I had to force myself to keep reading. It was an interesting concept, but it wasn't executed very well. Meyer doesn't do too much with character development in any of her books.
A nice change from the Twilight series. This borders on science fiction but the concept is new and interesting. The story explores what it means to be a family, how to manage society, prejudice, humanity, and fear of the unknown. There's action, sexual tension, and both physical and emotional sacrifice all to save the human race and ultimately, love.
It took some convincing for me to read this, but I was so glad once I finally did. I loved the details and descriptions and thought Meyer did an excellent job of moving away from the Twilight style of writing.
I attempted to read this a while ago after reading the Twilight series. Unfortunately, I couldn't get into it, I watched the film when it came out and liked it better but books are usually better than the films. I don't know I just couldn't get into this book.
adventurous
dark
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced